Cameron began his service March 15, 2010 to Rio de Janeiro Mission.
Marissa began her service July 20, 2011 to Barcelona Spain Mission. Craig began his service December 28, 2011 to Cochabamba, Bolivia. Ryan began his service October 23, 2013 to Lima Perú North.

Monday, August 5, 2013

Yes

Mom - I got the package. Thanks.

Dear Family,

So
right now I have mixed emotions. Transfers again... I´m leaving. The
time is flying really fast. I was only with my companion for one
transfer, Oh well. I´m going to Cochabamba, a little on the outskirts
like Henderson is to Las Vegas. Seems like I´m never in the city. I´m
going to be finishing training Elder Laura who has about 6 months in
the mission. I´m really excited because there, I´ll ''die'' and I know
there´s a ton of people waiting there for me. I´m also kind of happy
that I going down form Zone leader. I mean, I learned a ton, but I´m
just tired. Time for someone else. But I´m also kinda sad. We have a
marriage-Baptism this Saturday, the familia Mamani. They´ve been ready
for a couple weeks, we were just waiting for Sucre to finish the papers
for their marriage. It´s not a one day process kind of deal. I think you
guys are going through that right now... But today, we finished
everything and the date is set for this Saturday! Those two will get
married and then baptized with their son and 3 nephews (who are
basically like their sons). So that´s 6 people! There´s also another
family of 4 that have a date for the 17 of August. Oh well. It seems
like I´m always preparing the way for other missionaries. This is the
Lord´s work and baptisms, not mine. Some are John the Baptists, others
are Jesus, And some are Peters. (if that makes sense).

Seriously, this whole week was focused around making
sure those 20 with baptism dates make it to the date we put and helping
them come to church. We´ve had a lot of success here and the next
person will be very happy as well. Saturday we had a really fun activity
called ''Viaje a Hawaii''. You´ve probably heard of it before. We all
got on an airplane, then we landed in Hawaii where there were several
games put on by the members, a club, and spiritual stuff like be a
missionary for two minutes, a distribution center, and the temple. We
gave them money so they can spend it on the games, food, etc while in
the spiritual stuff, they gained money. At the end, we all got back on
the plane to go back to Sucre. Then the plane crashed and we all died.
According to the money that you have left, you go to one of the kingdoms
of God or outer darkness if you have nothing. It was sweet. My job,
besides helping set up and take down, was being the pilot, a temple
worker, the judge, and an angel in the Celestial kingdom. Cool stuff.
There were many people that weren´t members that came and even many
members finally are coming to stuff.

Keep the faith. Keep the energy. I can´t tell you
exactly what this power is, only that it exists. And when a man is in
that state of mind, determined to fulfill what he set out for, this
power become´s available.